Teen Hacker Recluse Has a Girlfriend, Surprisingly

In the public imagination, a hacker is a pale teenaged boy with Aspergers, huddled over a computer in his bedroom at his mom's house. This is all true of 19-year-old British hacking suspect Ryan Cleary! But he also has a girlfriend.

A judge just denied Cleary's request to see his girlfriend, 19-year-old Amy Chapman, without his mom present. (One question: Does Amy happen to be a really hot Hungarian whom Cleary met at summer camp but nobody's ever seen?)

By all accounts Cleary seems a bit of a turn off. Cleary is an Aspergers sufferer who rarely left his room in his mom's house, a beige, computer-laden box that could have been featured in a Matrix movie. He's been under house arrest since June, when he was arrested and accused of being a key member of the hacking group Lulz Security, which attacked the CIA, Sony, and Britain's Serious Organized Crime Agency this spring. And he wore an all-sweats outfit to his first trial date.